The process of gathering visual studies of tissue or the body for purposes of research or diagnostics.
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Can stress echocardiography show coronary blood flow difference before and after exercise?
Stress echocardiography means a pair of cardiac ultrasound imaging examinations, before and after exercise. I assume that coronary blood flow is increased after exercise. Is cardiac ultrasound ...
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What would it take to recognize a deer by its photo?
I am trying to recognize a deer by its antlers or any other means.
Elaborating:
I was hoping to use their antlers to recognize them but I have heard that most deers shed their antlers every year so ...
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Software for counting fly eggs
Is there any software that could be used to rapidly (quicker than humans) count the eggs laid by Drosophila on a substrate by placing them under a microscope with a camera attached? The eggs are laid ...
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Do the antlers re-grow in the same pattern every year? [duplicate]
I am a software engineer and I am trying to develop a system to identify a deer by its photograph.
Most deers lose their antlers every year. I would like to know if they re-grow in the same pattern ...
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Microscopy Book Suggestions
I've learned programming through great book recommendations, many from the Stack Exchange series of sites. I'm hoping to take this approach to gaining a fundamental understanding of how fluorescence ...
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Difference between Diffuse Optical Tomography and Optical Tomography
What are there the differences between these two modalities?
Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT)
Optical Tomography (OT)
Are there forms of OT that are not DOT?
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Cine-MRI versus MRI
Could someone explain the difference between Cine-MRI and MRI? I am reading conflicting things online, such as Cine-MRI uses ECG-gating, or that Cine-MRI takes many images of the same position of the ...
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Ultrasound during pregnancy
In a hospital I can see a long queue of pregnant women waiting for their turn for ultrasound. Is it safe to go through the ultrasound during pregnancy, especially during last few weeks?
Is ...
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Can I image Coomassie and GFP in gels at the same time with a fluorescence scanner?
I'm working with a GFP-tagged protein and am routinely using a fluorescence imager (GE Typhoon) and a standard optical scanner to capture fluorescent and absorption images, respectively, of my ...
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Automatic cropping of collimated digital X-ray images
Do you have any suggestions for a library which offers an algorithm to crop digital X-ray images automatically?
We receive full-size images (43x43cm) from a detector, independent of the collimator ...
